EricJ

Working on a VAQ-209 Star Warriors CAG jet, been wanting to do this one for a long time.

I didn't weather it too much (I can really dirty it up but it's not my call) but I'm familiar with at least some aspects (I like the jet art mainly) so cool I will probably use it for a skin or two, maybe something else down the road but for now it helped immensely in getting it right.

Managed to figure out the tool Menrva linked and improved the tail and fuselage insignia:

Thanks and now I have to dirty it up as the original is somewhat dirty as well.

Some better work. The tail insignia per the original is already low-res so I can only do so much with it, but it's something.

Thanks man I got it so you can remove it, again thanks for the help (and was planning on crediting the author of the skin, just a matter of course).

Thanks man, I do appreciate it. Also here is the start of the skin:

Okay how do I use the script? Do I just run it and it'll do the headers?

Thanks, I didn't think the file was named that, as I tried a couple sites and didn't see it. As for decals it shouldn't be too hard to reverse engineer it, just have to see how it goes getting it unpacked. Okay I managed to extract the file, but how do you hex edit? I tried renaming the file but that obviously didn't work. Which hex editor do you use and what are the steps?

I think its because nothing is ever done correct in movies regarding the military, except for movies like The Lone Survivor, and the one about Chris Kyle. Other than that movies just get it wrong and I think they were painted that way in order to be not seen as an official endorsement of a movie, or some other reason that I don't know of.

Do you have a link to the mod? IF so then the problem is that I can't open the .pak files given the native file format for Ace Combat. Or if there is a utility I can download the skin and reverse engineer the skin to make it work for a Tomcat skin. Otherwise I'd help though, looks pretty cool.

Another Hornet skin, this time a WIP Centennial of Naval Aviation one. Most of it is done so far but waiting on some ordered decals to finish this one.

View File F/A-18D VMFA(AW)-332 Line This represents a version of the VMFA(AW)-332 line jets. Simply drop into the FA-18D_03 folder and go fly. Special thanks to allenjb42 for the decals in order to make this skin happen. It can be found under VMFA(AW)-332 in the drop down menu. Submitter EricJ Submitted 11/01/2019 Category F-18  

Finally the decals from allenjb42 came in, and decided to go for a faded look on the tails:

View File Malaysian F/A-18D Skin This is a skin only for the F/A-18D (N) Hornet 03 that represents the eight F/A-18Ds that the nation flies. Decals are included as well as it setup for the Hornet pack that has the F/A-18D. Simply extract the files to the necessary folders and go fly. It can be found under Malaysian TUDM in the drop down skin list. Submitter EricJ Submitted 10/30/2019 Category F-18  

View File F/A-18E VFA-143 CO This skin represents a VFA-143 CO jet, time unknown. Simply drop in the FA-18E_BlkII folder and go fly. Can be found under VFA-143 Pukin Dogs CO in the drop down list. Submitter EricJ Submitted 10/30/2019 Category F-18  

Managed to get this done, a VFA-143 CO jet, time unknown based on a few reference photos.

EDIT: I think that did help, here's the result:

How about this?